Vulnerability to extreme heat and climate change: Is ethnicity a factor?

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hansen, Alana ^a   Bi, Linda ^a   Saniotis, Arthur ^a   Nitschke, Monika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b South Australian Department for Health and Ageing   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Barriers; Climate change; Ethnicity; Heat susceptibility; Migrants

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEAT; HUMAN; MIGRANT; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; BARRIERS; ETHNICITY; HEAT-SUSCEPTIBILITY; MIGRANTS; MIGRATION; RACE; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

AUSTRALIA; BARRIERS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ETHNICITY; HEAT-SUSCEPTIBILITY; MIGRANTS;

EID: 84886302675     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.21364     Document Type: Article

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